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NCT Cancellation Charge

  • 10-09-2009 12:16pm
    #1
    Turlock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭


    Right, booked my car in about 5 months ago and then got a reminder the other week about it. Thought I'd cancel it coz it's a bit of a shed (even though it drives great) but when I rang today I was told there'd be a cancellation charge of 22 euro (grrrr) because it was less than 5 working days before my test (wednesday 16th @ 7.30pm)

    Can I argue this? What are they going to do if I don't pay?

    Although the car drives great it's missing a bolt from one of the reat hubs (bolt sheared off in the tyre place a few weeks ago when I was getting a puncture sorted)

    Is this a fail? Could I just glue the top of the bolt in?

    Cheers


Comments

  • #2
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    Why not just get the bolt properly sorted and put the car through? It doesn't sound like it'd cost that much. If you're going to sell the car, it'll be worth more with a valid NCT, if you're going to keep driving it you're risking the points/fine. If you don't pay the cancellation charge you'll be hit with it the next time you go to NCT a car - at this point i'd just think of it as a half-price NCT.


  • #3
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    When you cancel an NCT, it's simply added to the charge the next time you go in for an NCT.

    i.e. cancel now and they tell you it'll cost €22
    Book and attend the next NCT and it will cost the fee +€22

    And you'll have to take the car in sometime for an NCT - unless you're planning on scrapping it.


  • #4
    Turlock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭Turlock


    dudara wrote: »
    When you cancel an NCT, it's simply added to the charge the next time you go in for an NCT.

    i.e. cancel now and they tell you it'll cost €22
    Book and attend the next NCT and it will cost the fee +€22

    And you'll have to take the car in sometime for an NCT - unless you're planning on scrapping it.

    Well I'm planning on selling it cheap for parts so it'll probably never go through one again. I'm worried(not really but you know what I mean) that I'll get an invoice for it though or that I'll get stung on a different car...


  • #5
    JohnThomas09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭JohnThomas09


    Turlock wrote: »
    Well I'm planning on selling it cheap for parts so it'll probably never go through one again. I'm worried(not really but you know what I mean) that I'll get an invoice for it though or that I'll get stung on a different car...
    they will sting on another car.They will add it on the next time you get any car Nct'd.I'd get the bolt fixed and send it through chances are it won't go through first time.Nearly 70 percent of cars sitting the test fail first time.


  • #6
    Anan1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,815 ✭✭✭✭Anan1


    JohnThomas09 wrote: »
    Nearly 70 percent of cars sitting the test fail first time.
    The pass rate for Jan-Aug 2009 is 52.2%, 91% pass on retest.


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  • #7
    JohnThomas09
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭JohnThomas09


    Anan1 wrote: »
    The pass rate for Jan-Aug 2009 is 52.2%, 91% pass on retest.
    sorry my stats were a wee bit out.


  • #8
    Turlock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 240 ✭✭Turlock


    JohnThomas09 wrote: »
    they will sting on another car.They will add it on the next time you get any car Nct'd.I'd get the bolt fixed and send it through chances are it won't go through first time.Nearly 70 percent of cars sitting the test fail first time.

    Thanks folks, I put it through back in June but have put a few thousand on since. Other than the engine making noise (don't think it'll affect emissions which it passed on last time) I got the two problems with it sorted...

    I'll probably give it a go if I can do something with the bolt


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